Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy

Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct - and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm - with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to: * Evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences * Understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client * Prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage You'll find concise, authoritative discussion of ethical problems that arise in such critical areas as: * Investigation of claims * Abuse of discovery * Conflicts of interest * Burdensome interrogatories * Trial in the media * Voir dire and juror investigation * Deposition tactics * Special fee arrangements * Settlement negotiations * Withdrawal and client confidentiality * Arguing false inferences based on inadmissible evidence ...plus detailed attention to the special problems that arise in criminal defense, insurance defense, and class actions.